Scholars@Duke
Lars Johannes L Grimm

Lars Johannes L Grimm

Associate Professor of Radiology
Radiology, Breast Imaging
lars.grimm@duke.edu
Dept of Radiology, Box 3808, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

MammoTracker: Mask-Guided Lesion Tracking in Temporal Mammograms

Conference Lecture Notes in Computer Science · January 1, 2026 Accurate lesion tracking in temporal mammograms is essential for monitoring breast cancer progression and facilitating early diagnosis. However, automated lesion correspondence across exams remains a challenges in computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems, li ... Full text Cite

BreastSegNet: Multi-label Segmentation of Breast MRI

Conference Lecture Notes in Computer Science · January 1, 2026 Breast MRI provides high-resolution imaging critical for breast cancer screening and preoperative staging. However, existing segmentation methods for breast MRI remain limited in scope, often focusing on only a few anatomical structures, such as fibrogland ... Full text Cite

Longitudinal Mammogram Exam-Based Breast Cancer Diagnosis Models: Vulnerability to Adversarial Attacks

Conference Lecture Notes in Computer Science · January 1, 2026 In breast cancer detection and diagnosis, the longitudinal analysis of mammogram images is crucial. Contemporary models excel in detecting temporal imaging feature changes, thus enhancing the learning process over sequential imaging exams. Yet, the resilie ... Full text Cite

Exploring the gender gap in Canadian ophthalmology applicants: a mixed methods study.

Journal Article Can J Ophthalmol · December 26, 2025 OBJECTIVE: To examine and compare medical students' perceptions of ophthalmology as a career, with a focus on women and under-represented students. STUDY DESIGN: Phase 1 of a multi-institutional, explanatory sequential mixed-methods study. METHODS: Medical ... Full text Link to item Cite

Spatially Discontinuous Mutation Topographies in Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Reveal Noncompetitive Growth Dynamics.

Journal Article Cancer Res · December 15, 2025 UNLABELLED: Preinvasive breast cancer, or ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), shares many morphologic and genomic features with invasive breast cancer, yet most DCIS tumors remain indolent over decades. In this study, we performed spatial analyses of somatic ... Full text Link to item Cite

Breast Imaging Staffing Shortages: Defining the Problem and Addressing Root Causes.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · December 13, 2025 OBJECTIVE: To assess the current perceptions of breast imaging staffing shortages and contributing factors among breast imaging radiologists. METHODS: A survey assessing current perception of breast radiologists regarding breast imaging-specific staffing s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Breast Remote Reading: Widely Desired But Home Workstations Show No Association With Job Satisfaction Or Burnout.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · December 13, 2025 OBJECTIVE: Understand radiologists' opinions regarding remote breast imaging and determine whether having home workstations is associated with greater job satisfaction or less burnout. METHODS: A 43-question survey on remote breast imaging was distributed ... Full text Link to item Cite

Echogenic Rind Associated With Suspicious Masses on Ultrasound: Performance for Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Associations With Pathologic Tumor Characteristics.

Journal Article AJR Am J Roentgenol · December 2025 BACKGROUND. The 6th edition of the BI-RADS ultrasound lexicon is anticipated to include echogenic rind as a renamed associated feature, defined as a thick hyperechoic band partially or completely surrounding a mass and disrupting surrounding tissue texture ... Full text Link to item Cite

Follow-up Recommendations for Young, Average Risk Women With BI-RADS 3 Masses.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · November 11, 2025 OBJECTIVE: To determine the outcome and malignancy rate of BI-RADS 3 masses during follow-up at 6, 12, and 24 months. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study identified female patients <35 years of age with an oval, parallel, circumscribed mass assigned a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Radiology: Summary of the 2024 Intersociety Summer Conference.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · November 2025 The 2024 ACR Intersociety Summer Conference was convened August 9 to 11, 2024, at the Seaport Hotel in Boston, with representation from 27 societies. This year's agenda focused on the anticipated future impacts of artificial intelligence on the practice of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cross-National Radiomics Validation Using Mammography to Predict Occult Invasion in Ductal Carcinoma in Situ.

Journal Article Radiology · November 2025 Background Patients diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) may also have undetected invasive breast cancer. Radiomic features of calcifications at mammography can predict occult invasive disease among women diagnosed with DCIS at core-needle biopsy ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cleanliness Technique in Breast and Axillary Image-Guided Procedures: Best Practices to Minimize Infection.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · October 28, 2025 Breast image-guided procedures play a critical role in the diagnosis and management of breast cancer, serving as the gold standard for tissue sampling and preoperative localization. These minimally invasive procedures carry a very low risk of complications ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mapping the temporal landscape of breast cancer using epigenetic entropy.

Journal Article Commun Biol · October 16, 2025 Although generally unknown, the age of a newly diagnosed tumor encodes valuable etiologic and prognostic information. Here, we estimate the age of breast cancers, defined as the time from the start of growth to detection, using a measure of epigenetic entr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Opinions and Preferences Regarding Artificial Intelligence Use in Health Care Delivery: Results From a National Multisite Survey of Breast Imaging Patients.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · September 2025 OBJECTIVE: Artificial intelligence (AI) utilization is growing, but patient perceptions of AI are unclear. Our objective was to understand patient perceptions of AI through a multisite survey of breast imaging patients. METHODS: A 36-question survey was di ... Full text Link to item Cite

Radiology Resident Perspectives on and Experiences With Labor Union Participation.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · August 2025 PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to understand the perceptions of radiology residents regarding labor unions and the differences between unionized and nonunionized residents in perceived versus actual benefits of unionization. METHODS: This cross-section ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cancer outcomes in women without upfront surgery for ductal carcinoma in situ: observational cohort study.

Journal Article BMJ · July 8, 2025 OBJECTIVE: To determine the risk of subsequent ipsilateral invasive breast cancer in women who do not receive upfront surgery on diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). DESIGN: Observational cohort study using data abstracted directly from patients' ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cross-site Validation of AI Segmentation and Harmonization in Breast MRI.

Journal Article J Imaging Inform Med · June 2025 This work aims to perform a cross-site validation of automated segmentation for breast cancers in MRI and to compare the performance to radiologists. A three-dimensional (3D) U-Net was trained to segment cancers in dynamic contrast-enhanced axial MRIs usin ... Full text Link to item Cite

High risk surveillance MRI may not be necessary in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers over 70 years old.

Journal Article Breast Cancer Res Treat · June 2025 BACKGROUND: The risk of developing breast cancer up to age 80 for women with BRCA1/2 mutations is approximately 69-72%. The risk estimates, however, become labile in the later years of life. Many older BRCA1/2 mutation carriers who have not developed breas ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mammography Home Workstations and Remote Diagnostic Breast Imaging: Current Practice Patterns and Planned Future Directions.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · May 17, 2025 OBJECTIVE: Assess current practices and plans regarding home workstations and remote diagnostic breast imaging in the United States. METHODS: A 43-question survey relating to remote breast imaging was distributed to Society of Breast Imaging members from J ... Full text Link to item Cite

Optimizing Screening Outcomes: A Guide for Breast Imaging Practices.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · May 17, 2025 Radiologists face a range of challenges to maximize the life-saving benefits of screening mammography, including pressure to maintain accuracy, manage heavy workloads, and minimize the risk of fatigue and burnout. This review provides targeted strategies t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Contrast-Enhanced Mammography Implementation: Early Struggles and Successes.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · May 17, 2025 We used focus groups of radiologists who led the implementation of contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) in their practice to identify barriers and strategies for adoption. Members of the Society of Breast Imaging in the United States who served as lead on C ... Full text Link to item Cite

Architectural Distortions Detected by DBT Alone With No Ultrasound Correlate and Nonmalignant Results on Core Needle Biopsy: Outcomes From an Imaging-Focused Management Strategy.

Journal Article AJR Am J Roentgenol · May 2025 BACKGROUND. Architectural distortions (ADs) detected on digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) are more frequently associated with nonmalignant pathologies than those detected on digital mammography. OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to evaluate outcome ... Full text Link to item Cite

Improving annotation efficiency for fully labeling a breast mass segmentation dataset.

Journal Article J Med Imaging (Bellingham) · May 2025 PURPOSE: Breast cancer remains a leading cause of death for women. Screening programs are deployed to detect cancer at early stages. One current barrier identified by breast imaging researchers is a shortage of labeled image datasets. Addressing this probl ... Full text Link to item Cite

Active Monitoring With or Without Endocrine Therapy for Low-Risk Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: The COMET Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal Article JAMA · March 18, 2025 IMPORTANCE: Active monitoring for low-risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) of the breast has been proposed as an alternative to guideline-concordant care, but the safety of this approach is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To compare rates of invasive cancer in patient ... Full text Link to item Cite

Adjectives in the Summary Paragraph of the MSPE: Are They Telling Us Something?

Journal Article Acad Radiol · February 2025 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Many US medical schools do not provide a summative, comparative assessment of students (class rank), instead utilizing descriptive adjectives in the summary paragraph of the Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE). The objec ... Full text Link to item Cite

Nontechnical Factors and Postprocedural Considerations for Image-guided Breast Biopsy.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · January 25, 2025 Beyond the technical aspects, success and long-term patient outcomes of image-guided breast biopsies depend on the overall patient experience. Patient experience in turn is influenced by intangible factors, such as environmental features during the procedu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Status of LGBTQ+ Inclusion Using a Multi-Institution Assessment of US Radiology Residencies.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · January 2025 INTRODUCTION: An inclusive residency program is crucial to the recruitment and retention of competitive and diverse applicants. The radiology lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, or another diverse gender identity (LGBTQ+) inclusion a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Large Language Model Use in Radiology Residency Applications: Unwelcomed but Inevitable.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · January 2025 OBJECTIVE: This study explores radiology program directors' perspectives on the impact of large language model (LLM) use among residency applicants to craft personal statements. METHODS: Eight program directors from the Radiology Residency Education Resear ... Full text Link to item Cite

Survey on Current Utilization and Perception of Synthesized Mammography.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · November 5, 2024 OBJECTIVE: To assess utilization and perceptions of 2D synthesized mammography (SM) for digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) among practicing U.S. breast radiologists. METHODS: An IRB-exempt 23-question anonymized survey was developed by the Society of Breas ... Full text Link to item Cite

Tips and Tricks for Image-Guided Breast Biopsies: Technical Factors for Success.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · November 5, 2024 Image-guided biopsy is an integral step in the diagnosis and management of suspicious image-detected breast or axillary lesions, allowing for accurate diagnosis and, if indicated, treatment planning. Tissue sampling can be performed under guidance of a ful ... Full text Link to item Cite

Improving Computer-aided Detection for Digital Breast Tomosynthesis by Incorporating Temporal Change.

Journal Article Radiol Artif Intell · September 2024 Purpose To develop a deep learning algorithm that uses temporal information to improve the performance of a previously published framework of cancer lesion detection for digital breast tomosynthesis. Materials and Methods This retrospective study analyzed ... Full text Link to item Cite

Disease-specific survival outcomes for patients after locoregional treatment for ductal carcinoma in situ: observational cohort study.

Journal Article Br J Surg · August 30, 2024 BACKGROUND: Breast-conserving surgery alone, breast-conserving surgery with adjuvant radiation treatment, and mastectomy are guideline-concordant treatments for ductal carcinoma in situ. The aim of this study was to compare survival outcomes between these ... Full text Link to item Cite

Radiology for Ductal Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast: Updates on Invasive Cancer Progression and Active Monitoring.

Journal Article Korean J Radiol · August 2024 Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) accounts for approximately 30% of new breast cancer diagnoses. However, our understanding of how normal breast tissue evolves into DCIS and invasive cancers remains insufficient. Further, conclusions regarding the mechanisms ... Full text Link to item Cite

Imaging Changes and Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Active Monitoring for Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: Seven-Year Follow-up Study.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · July 2024 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: To determine the imaging changes and their associated positive predictive value (PPV) for invasive breast cancer in women undergoing active monitoring for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this seven-year ... Full text Link to item Cite

Women in leadership matters: Achieving diversity in radiology residency recruitment.

Journal Article Clin Imaging · July 2024 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: To assess whether academic radiology departments and residency programs with efforts toward supporting and augmenting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are associated with a higher proportion of residents from diverse backgro ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Influence of Extracurricular Activities on Radiology Resident Selection Decisions.

Conference J Am Coll Radiol · June 2024 PURPOSE: Extracurricular activities (EAs) listed on radiology residency applications can signal traits and characteristics desired in holistic reviews. The authors conducted an objective analysis to determine the influence of EAs on resident selection deci ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact of Interruptions During Screening Mammography on Physician Well-Being and Patient Care.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · June 2024 OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of interruptions on radiologists' efficiency, accuracy, and job satisfaction in interpreting screening mammograms. METHODS: This institutional review board-approved retrospective reader study recruited nine breast radiologis ... Full text Link to item Cite

Screening the Implant-Augmented Breast with Digital Breast Tomosynthesis: Is Tomosynthesis Necessary for Non-implant-Displaced Views?

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · May 27, 2024 OBJECTIVE: To determine cancer visualization utility and radiation dose for non-implant-displaced (ID) views using standard protocol with digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) vs alternative protocol with 2D only when screening women with implant augmentation ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patient Characteristics Impact Performance of AI Algorithm in Interpreting Negative Screening Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Studies.

Journal Article Radiology · May 2024 Background Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used to manage radiologists' workloads. The impact of patient characteristics on AI performance has not been well studied. Purpose To understand the impact of patient characteristics (race and ethnici ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patient Preferences of Breast Radiologists' Attire and Appearance.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · April 2024 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: To assess patient preferences for breast radiologists' attire and appearance. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A multi-institutional anonymous, voluntary 19-question survey was administered to patients undergoing screening and diagnostic ma ... Full text Link to item Cite

Current Practice and Variation in Same-Day Services in Breast Imaging: A Multi-Institutional National Survey of the Society of Breast Imaging Membership.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · April 1, 2024 OBJECTIVE: The availability of same-day services in breast imaging is an important topic given potential advantages for timely diagnoses and patient experiences, but there are potential barriers that lead facilities to not offer these services. We sought t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Breast Radiologists' Perceptions on the Detection and Management of Invasive Lobular Carcinoma: Most Agree Imaging Beyond Mammography Is Warranted.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · April 1, 2024 OBJECTIVE: To determine breast radiologists' confidence in detecting invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) on mammography and the perceived need for additional imaging in screening and preoperative settings. METHODS: A 16-item anonymized survey was developed, a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Factors Contributing to Disproportionate Burnout in Women Breast Imaging Radiologists: A Review.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · April 1, 2024 Physician burnout continues to increase in prevalence and disproportionately affects women physicians. Breast imaging is a woman-dominated subspeciality, and therefore, worsening burnout among women physicians may have significant repercussions on the futu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Optimizing the Patient Experience for Women With Disabilities in the Breast Imaging Clinic.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · April 1, 2024 While there are varying opinions on what age to begin and at what interval to perform breast cancer screening, screening mammography is recommended for all women irrespective of disability. Unfortunately, women with disabilities are more likely to present ... Full text Link to item Cite

A publicly available deep learning model and dataset for segmentation of breast, fibroglandular tissue, and vessels in breast MRI.

Journal Article Sci Rep · March 5, 2024 Breast density, or the amount of fibroglandular tissue (FGT) relative to the overall breast volume, increases the risk of developing breast cancer. Although previous studies have utilized deep learning to assess breast density, the limited public availabil ... Full text Link to item Cite

Otolaryngology residency program factors associated with female resident representation.

Journal Article World J Otorhinolaryngol Head Neck Surg · March 2024 OBJECTIVE: Female representation in the field of otolaryngology is lacking. Residency is the first point at which medical school graduates specialize in a chosen field and thus represents an opportunity to recruit and train more female otolaryngologists. T ... Full text Link to item Cite

Rate and Timeliness of Diagnostic Evaluation and Biopsy After Recall From Screening Mammography in the National Mammography Database.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · March 2024 OBJECTIVE: To describe the rate and timeliness of diagnostic resolution after an abnormal screening mammogram in the ACR's National Mammography Database. METHODS: Abnormal screening mammograms (BI-RADS 0 assessment) in the National Mammography Database fro ... Full text Link to item Cite

Now or Later? Patient Satisfaction and Anxiety Among Women Undergoing Breast Biopsies Performed the Same Day as Recommended Versus a Later Day.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · March 2024 PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine differences in patient satisfaction and anxiety among women undergoing core-needle breast biopsies performed the same day as recommended versus a future date. METHODS: After institutional review board exempti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Language Patterns in Letters of Recommendation for Residency Applicants in Otolaryngology.

Journal Article Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg · March 2024 OBJECTIVE: Assess for gender and race patterns in agentic and communal language used in letters of recommendation for Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) residency applicants. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective content analysis. SETTING: Applications from ... Full text Link to item Cite

Evolving Treatment Paradigms for Low-Risk Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: Imaging Needs.

Journal Article AJR Am J Roentgenol · March 2024 Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a nonobligate precursor to invasive cancer that classically presents as asymptomatic calcifications on screening mammography. The increase in DCIS diagnoses with organized screening programs has raised concerns about over ... Full text Link to item Cite

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Screening mammographic performance by race and age in the National Mammography Database: 29,479,665 screening mammograms from 13,181,241 women.

Journal Article Breast Cancer Res Treat · February 2024 PURPOSE: There are insufficient large-scale studies comparing the performance of screening mammography in women of different races. This study aims to compare the screening performance metrics across racial and age groups in the National Mammography Databa ... Full text Link to item Cite

Breast Cancer Screening and Treatment Clinical Trials Updated for 2023.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · January 19, 2024 There are many active or recently completed breast cancer screening and treatment trials in 2023 that have the potential to fundamentally change the way breast radiologists practice medicine. Breast cancer screening trials may provide evidence to support s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Medical student perspectives on radiology subspecialties prior to core clerkship.

Journal Article Curr Probl Diagn Radiol · 2024 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Radiology remains underrepresented in U.S. medical school clinical curricula, and preconceived opinions about the field may impact whether students pursue elective exposure. A core radiology clerkship at one academic institution p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Classification performance bias between training and test sets in a limited mammography dataset.

Journal Article PLoS One · 2024 OBJECTIVES: To assess the performance bias caused by sampling data into training and test sets in a mammography radiomics study. METHODS: Mammograms from 700 women were used to study upstaging of ductal carcinoma in situ. The dataset was repeatedly shuffle ... Full text Link to item Cite

A Residual-Attention Multimodal Fusion Network (ResAMF-Net) for Detection and Classification of Breast Cancer

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2024 Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), synthetic mammography, and full-field digital mammography (FFDM) are commonly used medical imaging modalities for breast cancer screening. Due to the data complexity, most CAD research applies to only one modality, which ... Full text Cite

The Impact of the Dobbs Decision on Diagnostic Radiology Applicants, Residents, and Program Directors.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · November 2023 In the Dobbs decision the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, returning the issue of abortion to the states. To date, there is little published data on the impact this might have on where future residents choose to pursue graduate medical e ... Full text Link to item Cite

Unintended Consequence: Diversity as a Casualty of Eliminating United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 Scores.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · November 2023 PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to use a discrete-choice experiment to model the trade-offs evaluators make between academic attributes and demographics when the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 switches to pass/fail. METHO ... Full text Link to item Cite

Growth Dynamics of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Recapitulate Normal Breast Development.

Journal Article bioRxiv · October 2, 2023 Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and invasive breast cancer share many morphologic, proteomic, and genomic alterations. Yet in contrast to invasive cancer, many DCIS tumors do not progress and may remain indolent over decades. To better understand the heter ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ipsilateral Lesion Detection Refinement for Tomosynthesis.

Journal Article IEEE Trans Med Imaging · October 2023 Computer-aided detection (CAD) frameworks for breast cancer screening have been researched for several decades. Early adoption of deep-learning models in CAD frameworks has shown greatly improved detection performance compared to traditional CAD on single- ... Full text Link to item Cite

Breast Cancer Risk Assessment and Screening Practices Reported Via an Online Survey.

Journal Article Ann Surg Oncol · October 2023 BACKGROUND: Breast cancer screening guidelines differ between organizations, and significant variations in practice patterns exist. Previous evidence suggests that provider-level factors are the greatest contributors to risk assessment and screening practi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Feasibility of predicting a screening digital breast tomosynthesis recall using features extracted from the electronic medical record.

Journal Article Eur J Radiol · September 2023 PURPOSE: Tools to predict a screening mammogram recall at the time of scheduling could improve patient care. We extracted patient demographic and breast care history information within the electronic medical record (EMR) for women undergoing digital breast ... Full text Link to item Cite

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Education in Radiology: Multi-institutional Survey of Radiology Residents in the United States.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · July 2023 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: To evaluate radiology residents' perspectives regarding inclusion of artificial intelligence/ machine learning (AI/ML) education in the residency curriculum. MATERIALS AND METHODS: An online anonymous survey was sent to 759 reside ... Full text Link to item Cite

Microcalcification crystallography as a potential marker of DCIS recurrence.

Journal Article Sci Rep · June 8, 2023 Ductal carcinoma in-situ (DCIS) accounts for 20-25% of all new breast cancer diagnoses. DCIS has an uncertain risk of progression to invasive breast cancer and a lack of predictive biomarkers may result in relatively high levels (~ 75%) of overtreatment. T ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ongoing Impact of COVID-19 on Breast Radiologists' Wellness.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · May 22, 2023 OBJECTIVE: Assess the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on mental well-being of breast radiologists nationwide two years after the start of the pandemic and compared to early in the pandemic. METHODS: A 27-question survey was distributed from December 2021 to Jan ... Full text Link to item Cite

BI-RADS 3 on MRI: Shifting From an Art to a Science.

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Surveillance Imaging after Primary Diagnosis of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ.

Journal Article Radiology · April 2023 Background Guidelines recommend annual surveillance imaging after diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Guideline adherence has not been characterized in a contemporary cohort. Purpose To identify uptake and determinants of surveillance imaging in ... Full text Link to item Cite

An Elite Privilege: Top-Ranked Medical Schools Provide Fewer Comparative Performance Data on Their Students.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · April 2023 PURPOSE: The objective of this study was to determine differences in the reporting of performance data on medical student performance evaluations (MSPEs) by medical school ranking. METHODS: MSPEs from all US allopathic and osteopathic medical schools recei ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ethanol Sclerotherapy for Postoperative Seroma of the Breast and Axilla.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · March 20, 2023 OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the effectiveness of alcohol sclerotherapy in postoperative breast and axillary seromas. METHODS: This was an IRB-approved retrospective review of consecutive patients from 2017 to 2021. The procedure involves aspiration of seroma fluid ... Full text Link to item Cite

Racial Disparities in Breast Imaging Wait Times Before and After the Implementation of a Same-Day Biopsy Program.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · March 20, 2023 OBJECTIVE: To examine time from screening to diagnostic workup, biopsy, and surgery for non-Hispanic White (NHW) and Black women following implementation of a same-day biopsy program. METHODS: All NHW and Black women with BI-RADS category 0 screening mammo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Abstract P6-04-13: Centralized adequacy assessment of ductal carcinoma in situ samples for the COMET study (AFT-25)

Conference Cancer Research · March 1, 2023 AbstractIntroduction COMET (Comparing an Operation to Monitoring, with or without Endocrine Therapy) is a phase III clinical trial randomizing patients diagnosed with low-intermediate grade DCIS to either ac ... Full text Cite

Classification performance bias between training and test sets in a limited mammography dataset.

Journal Article medRxiv · February 23, 2023 OBJECTIVES: To assess the performance bias caused by sampling data into training and test sets in a mammography radiomics study. METHODS: Mammograms from 700 women were used to study upstaging of ductal carcinoma in situ. The dataset was repeatedly shuffle ... Full text Link to item Cite

Hidden Curriculum and the Demographic Stoicism That Keeps Women and Minorities Away From Radiology: A Mixed-Methods Study of Medical Students.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · February 2023 OBJECTIVE: To understand how women and historically underrepresented minority medical students perceive radiology as a potential career choice. METHODS: Medical students representing a broad spectrum of radiology exposure from a single institution were inv ... Full text Link to item Cite

Multi-view DBT Grid-Attention Detection Framework

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2023 Most of the existing CAD frameworks for digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) are single-view only, while radiologists typically utilize information from multiple screening views to better detect breast cancer lesions. Previously, we developed the Retina-Matc ... Full text Cite

A user interface to communicate interpretable AI decisions to radiologists

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2023 Tools for computer-aided diagnosis based on deep learning have become increasingly important in the medical field. Such tools can be useful, but require effective communication of their decision-making process in order to safely and meaningfully guide clin ... Full text Cite

Short-Term Outcomes in DCIS Patients Managed Without Initial Surgery

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High Risk Screening in Women with BRCA1/2 Mutations Age 70 and Above

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Practical Steps to Writing a Scientific Manuscript.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · December 11, 2022 Writing a scientific manuscript can be a very intimidating process for new writers. However, writing a scientific research article can be broken down into discrete steps to make the process more digestible. Radiology manuscripts have common conventions tha ... Full text Link to item Cite

What's in a Name? Moving Away From "Women's Imaging".

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Abbreviated Breast MRI Utilization: A Survey of the Society of Breast Imaging.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · October 10, 2022 OBJECTIVE: To survey Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) membership on their use of abbreviated breast MRI to understand variability in practice patterns. METHODS: A survey was developed by the SBI Patient Care and Delivery committee for distribution to SBI me ... Full text Link to item Cite

Should Radiology Residency Interviews Remain Virtual? Results of a Multi-institutional Survey Inform the Debate.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · October 2022 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The recent completion of the inaugural virtual interview season has triggered calls for the permanency of virtual interviews in the radiology resident selection process. We designed a study to assess the inaugural 2020-2021 virtua ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patient and Radiologist Demographics Influence Perceptions of Screening Mammography Reports.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · October 2022 PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to test whether patient and radiologist demographics influence perceptions of screening mammography reports and the interpreting radiologist. METHODS: Patients presenting for breast imaging were surveyed. Demographics wer ... Full text Link to item Cite

Career Research Performance Among Radiology Early Career Grant Recipients Compared With National Institutes of Health K Award Recipients.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · September 2022 OBJECTIVE: To compare academic and demographic metrics among recipients of three major early career radiology, interventional radiology, and radiation oncology grants to National Institutes of Health (NIH) K awardees at the time the grants were awarded and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Geographic Trends in Publications and Submissions in Radiology Journals: Decade Report (2010 - 2020).

Journal Article Acad Radiol · August 2022 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVE: The Radiology Research Alliance (RRA) of the Association of University Radiologists (AUR) organized a task force to quantify geographic changes in submissions to and publications within radiology journals over time. MATERIALS AND M ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Breast Imaging: An Analysis of the National Mammography Database.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · August 2022 PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to quantify the initial decline and subsequent rebound in breast cancer screening metrics throughout the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. METHODS: Screening and diagnostic mammographic examinations, biopsies ... Full text Link to item Cite

Can the use of deception be justified in medical education research? A point/counterpoint and case study.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · July 2022 Deception is a common feature of behavioral research design, although not commonly employed in the medical literature. It can promote scientific validity but is ethically controversial because it compromises subject autonomy and incurs additional costs.  I ... Full text Link to item Cite

Radiology Stereotypes, Application Barriers, and Hospital Integration: A Mixed-methods Study of Medical Student Perceptions of Radiology.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · July 2022 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Limited exposure to radiology by medical students can perpetuate negative stereotypes and hamper recruitment efforts. The purpose of this study is to understand medical students' perceptions of radiology and how they change based ... Full text Link to item Cite

Bleeding Complications After Breast Core-needle Biopsy-An Approach to Managing Patients on Antithrombotic Therapy.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · June 7, 2022 Image-guided core-needle breast and axillary biopsy (CNB) is the standard-of-care procedure for the diagnosis of breast cancer. Although the risks of CNB are low, the most common complications include bleeding and hematoma formation. Post-procedural bleedi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Anomaly Detection of Calcifications in Mammography Based on 11,000 Negative Cases.

Journal Article IEEE Trans Biomed Eng · May 2022 In mammography, calcifications are one of the most common signs of breast cancer. Detection of such lesions is an active area of research for computer-aided diagnosis and machine learning algorithms. Due to limited numbers of positive cases, many supervise ... Full text Link to item Cite

Variations and Challenges to Performing Outside Study Interpretations in Breast Imaging: A National Survey of the Society of Breast Imaging Membership.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · April 15, 2022 OBJECTIVE: Second-opinion interpretations of outside facility breast imaging provide value-added care but are operationally challenging for breast radiologists. Our objective was to survey members of the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) to assess practice p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Communicating With Breast Imaging Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on Patient Care and Physician Wellness.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · April 15, 2022 OBJECTIVE: Assess the impact of COVID-19 on patient-breast radiologist interactions and evaluate the relationship between safety measure-constrained communication and physician wellbeing. METHODS: A 41-question survey on the perceived effect of COVID-19 on ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prediction of Upstaging in Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Based on Mammographic Radiomic Features.

Journal Article Radiology · April 2022 Background Improving diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) before surgery is important in choosing optimal patient management strategies. However, patients may harbor occult invasive disease not detected until definitive surgery. Purpose To assess t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Implementation of Abbreviated Breast MRI for Screening: AJR Expert Panel Narrative Review.

Journal Article AJR Am J Roentgenol · February 2022 Abbreviated breast MRI (AB-MRI) is being rapidly adopted to harness the high sensitivity of screening MRI while addressing issues related to access, cost, and workflow. The successful implementation of an AB-MRI program requires collaboration across admini ... Full text Link to item Cite

Role of digital breast tomosynthesis in the evaluation of focal breast pain.

Journal Article Clin Imaging · February 2022 RATIONAL AND OBJECTIVE: To investigate the utility of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) in the evaluation of focal breast pain, considering breast density and breast cancer risk. METHODS: Ninety-one cases of focal breast pain evaluated with DBT and ultras ... Full text Link to item Cite

Breast Imaging for Transgender Individuals: Assessment of Current Practice and Needs.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · February 2022 PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to investigate breast radiologists' practices related to recording sex and gender in the electronic medical record, knowledge and attitudes about breast cancer screening recommendations for transgender individuals, and ex ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ductal Carcinoma in Situ: State-of-the-Art Review.

Journal Article Radiology · February 2022 Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a nonobligate precursor of invasive cancer, and its detection, diagnosis, and management are controversial. DCIS incidence grew with the expansion of screening mammography programs in the 1980s and 1990s, and DCIS is view ... Full text Link to item Cite

Benefits and Risks of Mammography Screening in Women Ages 40 to 49 Years.

Journal Article J Prim Care Community Health · 2022 Breast cancer screening in the United States is complicated by conflicting recommendations from professional and governmental organizations. The benefits and risks of breast cancer screening differ though by age which should influence shared decision-makin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Axillary Imaging Following a New Invasive Breast Cancer Diagnosis-A Radiologist's Dilemma.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · November 16, 2021 Traditionally, patients with newly diagnosed invasive breast cancer underwent axillary US to assess for suspicious axillary lymph nodes (LNs), which were then targeted for image-guided needle biopsy to determine the presence of metastasis. Over the past de ... Full text Link to item Cite

Factors Influential in the Selection of Radiology Residents in the Post-Step 1 World: A Discrete Choice Experiment.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · November 2021 OBJECTIVES: Reporting of United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 results will transition from a numerical score to a pass or fail result. We sought an objective analysis to determine changes in the relative importance of resident application att ... Full text Link to item Cite

The American College of Radiology/Society of Breast Imaging Updated Fellowship Training Curriculum for Breast Imaging.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · August 12, 2021 Since the publication of the most recent breast imaging resident and fellowship curriculum in 2013, there have been widespread changes to the field of breast imaging. Screen-film mammography has been nearly completely replaced, and there has been widesprea ... Full text Link to item Cite

Multimodal Patient-Specific Registration for Breast Imaging Using Biomechanical Modeling with Reference to AI Evaluation of Breast Tumor Change.

Journal Article Life (Basel) · July 26, 2021 BACKGROUND: The strategy to combat the problem associated with large deformations in the breast due to the difference in the medical imaging of patient posture plays a vital role in multimodal medical image registration with artificial intelligence (AI) in ... Full text Link to item Cite

COVID-19 and Breast Radiologist Wellness: Impact of Gender, Financial Loss, and Childcare Need.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · July 2021 PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the emotional and financial impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on breast radiologists to understand potential consequences on physician wellness and gender disparities in radiology. METHODS: A 4 ... Full text Link to item Cite

Primary care provider perspectives on screening mammography in older women: A qualitative study.

Journal Article Prev Med Rep · June 2021 OBJECTIVE: Guidelines informing screening mammography for older women are lacking. This study sought to characterize PCP perspectives on screening mammography for patients aged 75 and older. METHODS: This was an exploratory, qualitative study based on semi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Adaptations of Breast Imaging Centers to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey of California and Texas.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · May 21, 2021 OBJECTIVE: To determine the early impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on breast imaging centers in California and Texas and compare regional differences. METHODS: An 11-item survey was emailed to American College of Radiology accredited breast imaging faciliti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Radiomics: A Primer for Breast Radiologists.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · May 21, 2021 Radiomics has a long-standing history in breast imaging with computer-aided detection (CAD) for screening mammography developed in the late 20th century. Although conventional CAD had widespread adoption, the clinical benefits for experienced breast radiol ... Full text Link to item Cite

Disparities in surveillance imaging after breast conserving surgery for primary DCIS.

Conference Journal of Clinical Oncology · May 20, 2021 6516 Background: Due to the elevated risk of ipsilateral invasive breast cancer (iIBC) after diagnosis with primary ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), professional guidelines recommend surveillance screening within 6-12 months (mo) ... Full text Cite

Mixed-Methods Study to Predict Upstaging of DCIS to Invasive Disease on Mammography.

Journal Article AJR Am J Roentgenol · April 2021 BACKGROUND. The incidence of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) has steadily increased, as have concerns regarding overtreatment. Active surveillance is a novel treatment strategy that avoids surgical excision, but identifying patients with occult invasive di ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact of COVID-19 on Breast Imaging Practice Operations and Recovery Efforts: A North American Study.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · March 20, 2021 OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on breast imaging facilities' operations and recovery efforts across North America. METHODS: A survey on breast imaging facilities' operations and strategies for recovery during the COVID-19 pandemic ... Full text Link to item Cite

You're Biased! Deal With It.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · January 2021 Widespread implementation of the Implicit Association Test has revealed that most doctors, and many radiologists, hold implicit racial bias. Because implicit bias is thought to drive discrimination, it has emerged as a primary explanation for radiology's o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Breast Imaging Education.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · 2021 OBJECTIVE: To determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on breast imaging education. METHODS: A 22-item survey addressing four themes during the early pandemic (time on service, structured education, clinical training, future plans) was emailed to Soci ... Full text Link to item Cite

Retina-Match: Ipsilateral Mammography Lesion Matching in a Single Shot Detection Pipeline

Conference Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics · January 1, 2021 In mammography and tomosynthesis, radiologists use the geometric relationship of the four standard screening views to detect breast abnormalities. To date, computer aided detection methods focus on formulations based only on a single view. Recent multi-vie ... Full text Cite

Breast Imaging: Screening for New Breast Cancers and for Cancer Recurrence

Chapter · January 1, 2021 Breast cancer survivors require a unique breast imaging approach to identify new cancers as well as cancer recurrences. In this patient population, appropriate imaging requires some combination of digital mammography, digital breast tomosynthesis, ultrasou ... Full text Cite

Predicting Upstaging of DCIS to Invasive Disease: Radiologists's Predictive Performance.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · November 2020 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to quantify breast radiologists' performance at predicting occult invasive disease when ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) presents as calcifications on mammography and to identify imaging and histopathol ... Full text Link to item Cite

Performance of preoperative breast MRI based on breast cancer molecular subtype.

Journal Article Clin Imaging · November 2020 PURPOSE: To assess the performance of preoperative breast MRI biopsy recommendations based on breast cancer molecular subtype. METHODS: All preoperative breast MRIs at a single academic medical center from May 2010 to March 2014 were identified. Reports we ... Full text Link to item Cite

Breast Cancer Screening and Health Care Costs.

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It's not you, It's me: The influence of patient and surgeon gender on patient satisfaction scores.

Journal Article Am J Surg · November 2020 BACKGROUND: Surgeons face the unique challenge of being responsible for both clinical encounters and surgical outcomes. We aim to explore how patient evaluations of surgeons may be influenced by patient and provider factors. METHODS: Patient responses from ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Value of Numerical USMLE Step 1 Scores in Radiology Resident Selection.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · October 2020 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: In response to a recent proposal to change scoring on the United States Medical Licensing (USMLE) Step 1 exam to pass/fail, we sought to determine the value of numerical Step 1 scores in predicting success in our radiology residen ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Biology, Language, and Active Surveillance: A Survey of Breast Radiologists' Knowledge and Opinions.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · October 2020 PURPOSE: To understand how breast radiologists perceive ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). MATERIALS AND METHODS: A 19-item survey was developed by the Society of Breast Imaging Patient Care and Delivery Committee and distributed to all Society of Breast Ima ... Full text Link to item Cite

Overall health at diagnosis predicts the risk of complications within the first year after breast cancer diagnosis.

Journal Article Breast Cancer Res Treat · July 2020 PURPOSE: Breast cancer patients with overall poor health are at a greater risk of both complications during treatment and mortality from competing causes. We sought to determine the association of pre-existing comorbidities on treatment-related complicatio ... Full text Link to item Cite

Awareness of implicit bias mitigates discrimination in radiology resident selection.

Journal Article Med Educ · July 2020 OBJECTIVES: Implicit bias is common and is thought to drive discriminatory behaviour. Having previously demonstrated discrimination against specific applicant demographics by academic radiology departments in a simulated resident selection process, the aut ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prediction of Upstaged Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Using Forced Labeling and Domain Adaptation.

Journal Article IEEE Trans Biomed Eng · June 2020 OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study is to use adjunctive classes to improve a predictive model whose performance is limited by the common problems of small numbers of primary cases, high feature dimensionality, and poor class separability. Specifically, our ... Full text Link to item Cite

Multimodality Imaging of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ

Journal Article Current Breast Cancer Reports · March 1, 2020 Purpose of Review: We aim to review the appearance of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) across the spectrum of imaging modalities used in common clinical practice. Recent Findings: Changes in technology and clinical breast cancer screening patterns have impa ... Full text Cite

Gender and Racial Bias in Radiology Residency Letters of Recommendation.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · January 2020 OBJECTIVE: Perceptions of agency and communality vary by race and gender, which may be contributing to the persistent gender and racial inequality in radiology. The objective of this study was to determine if there are differences in the use of agentic and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Breast Cancer Radiogenomics: Current Status and Future Directions.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · January 2020 Radiogenomics is an area of research that aims to identify associations between imaging phenotypes ("radio-") and tumor genome ("-genomics"). Breast cancer radiogenomics research in particular has been an especially prolific area of investigation in recent ... Full text Link to item Cite

Microcalcification localization and cluster detection using unsupervised convolutional autoencoders and structural similarity index

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2020 Detecting microcalcification clusters in mammograms is important to the diagnosis of breast diseases. Previous studies which mainly focused on supervised methods require abundant annotated training data but these data are usually hard to acquire. In this w ... Full text Cite

A multitask deep learning method in simultaneously predicting occult invasive disease in ductal carcinoma in-situ and segmenting microcalcifications in mammography

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2020 We proposed a two-branch multitask learning convolutional neural network to solve two different but related tasks at the same time. Our main task is to predict occult invasive disease in biopsy proven Ductal Carcinoma in-situ (DCIS), with an auxiliary task ... Full text Cite

Deep learning analysis of breast MRIs for prediction of occult invasive disease in ductal carcinoma in situ.

Journal Article Comput Biol Med · December 2019 PURPOSE: To determine whether deep learning-based algorithms applied to breast MR images can aid in the prediction of occult invasive disease following the diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) by core needle biopsy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Our study ... Full text Link to item Cite

Bias in Radiology Resident Selection: Do We Discriminate Against the Obese and Unattractive?

Journal Article Acad Med · November 2019 Featured Publication PURPOSE: To evaluate for appearance-based discrimination in the selection of radiology residents. METHOD: A deception study simulating the resident selection process examined the impact of attractiveness and obesity on resident selection. Seventy-four core ... Full text Link to item Cite

Frequency of Breast Cancer Thoughts and Lifetime Risk Estimates: A Multi-Institutional Survey of Women Undergoing Screening Mammography.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · October 2019 PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to quantify women's personal estimates of breast cancer risk and frequency of breast cancer thoughts. METHODS: Women from five medical centers were surveyed before their screening mammographic examinations. Participants w ... Full text Link to item Cite

Screening for Breast Cancer in Average-Risk Women.

Journal Article Ann Intern Med · September 17, 2019 Full text Link to item Cite

A Proposal to Define Three New Breast Calcification Shapes: Square, Sandwich, and Teardrop, Pill & Capsule.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · September 4, 2019 OBJECTIVE: To define and illustrate three new descriptors for microcalcification morphology on mammography, and provide a preliminary assessment of their potential clinical value. METHODS: The institutional review board approved this retrospective study an ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cancer Outcomes in DCIS Patients Without Locoregional Treatment.

Journal Article J Natl Cancer Inst · September 1, 2019 BACKGROUND: The vast majority of women diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) undergo treatment. Therefore, the risks of invasive progression and competing death in the absence of locoregional therapy are uncertain. METHODS: We performed survival a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Hybrid Interactive and Didactic Teaching Format Improves Resident Retention and Attention Compared to Traditional Lectures.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · September 2019 PURPOSE: To compare the traditional lecture to a hybrid interactive and didactic teaching format with regards to radiology resident short- and long-term retention, as well as attention. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The tested hybrid format consists of a 30-minut ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ductal Carcinoma in Situ: Current Concepts in Biology, Imaging, and Treatment.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · September 2019 Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) of the breast is a group of heterogeneous epithelial proliferations confined to the milk ducts that nearly always present in asymptomatic women on breast cancer screening. A stage 0, preinvasive breast cancer, increased dete ... Full text Link to item Cite

Machine learning-based prediction of future breast cancer using algorithmically measured background parenchymal enhancement on high-risk screening MRI.

Journal Article J Magn Reson Imaging · August 2019 BACKGROUND: Preliminary work has demonstrated that background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) assessed by radiologists is predictive of future breast cancer in women undergoing high-risk screening MRI. Algorithmically assessed measures of BPE offer a more pr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Growth Dynamics of Mammographic Calcifications: Differentiating Ductal Carcinoma in Situ from Benign Breast Disease.

Journal Article Radiology · July 2019 Featured Publication Background Most ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) lesions are first detected on screening mammograms as calcifications. However, false-positive biopsy rates for calcifications range from 30% to 87%. Improved methods to differentiate benign from malignant cal ... Full text Link to item Cite

Screening Guidelines and Supplemental Screening Tools: Assessment of the Adequacy of Patient-Provider Discussions.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · June 4, 2019 PURPOSE: To assess breast imaging radiologists' perceptions of the adequacy of provider-patient discussions regarding the benefits and risks of screening mammography and supplemental screening in women with elevated risk and dense breasts. METHODS: A 36-it ... Full text Link to item Cite

Radiologist-Patient Communication: Current Practices and Barriers to Communication in Breast Imaging.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · May 2019 PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to assess variability in radiologist-patient communication practices and barriers to communication among members of the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI). METHODS: A 36-item questionnaire developed by the SBI Patient Care a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Solitary, Well-Circumscribed, T2 Hyperintense Masses on MRI Have Very Low Malignancy Rates.

Journal Article J Breast Imaging · March 13, 2019 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the malignancy rate of solitary MRI masses with benign BI-RADS descriptors. METHODS: A retrospective review was conducted of all breast MRI reports that described a mass with a final BI-RADS assessment ... Full text Link to item Cite

Authorship and Impact of Gender-Specific Research in Major Radiology Journals.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · February 2019 PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to quantify the relationship between author gender and publication topic, as well as the impact of gender-related research. METHODS: We reviewed all original research publications in Radiology, American Journal of Roen ... Full text Link to item Cite

Relationship between Background Parenchymal Enhancement on High-risk Screening MRI and Future Breast Cancer Risk.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · January 2019 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: To determine if background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) on screening breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in high-risk women correlates with future cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: All screening breast MRIs (n = 1039) in high-ri ... Full text Link to item Cite

Differential Motivations for Pursuing Interventional Radiology: Implications for Residency Recruitment.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · January 2019 PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to compare the motivations of interventional radiology (IR) residency, IR fellowship, and diagnostic radiology (DR) applicants. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A questionnaire was distributed to IR integrated residency and IR f ... Full text Link to item Cite

Synthesis and texture manipulation of screening mammograms using conditional generative adversarial network

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2019 Annotated data availability has always been a major limiting f actor for the development of algorithms in the field of computer aided diagnosis. The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility of using a conditional generative adversarial netwo ... Full text Cite

Malignant microcalcification clusters detection using unsupervised deep autoencoders

Journal Article Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2019 Detection and localization of microcalcification (MC) clusters are very important in mammography diagnosis. Supervised MC detectors require learning from extracted individual MCs and MC clusters. However, they are limited by number of datasets given that M ... Full text Cite

Multiview mammographic mass detection based on a single shot detection system

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2019 Detection of suspicious breast cancer lesion in screening mammography images is an important step for the downstream diagnosis the of breast cancer. A trained radiologist can usually take advantage of multi-view correlation of suspicious lesions to locate ... Full text Cite

Mask Embedding for Realistic High-Resolution Medical Image Synthesis

Conference Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics · January 1, 2019 Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have found applications in natural image synthesis and begin to show promises generating synthetic medical images. In many cases, the ability to perform controlled image synthesis using masked priors such as shape and ... Full text Cite

It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Influence of Surgeon Gender on Patient Satisfaction Scores

Conference Journal of the American College of Surgeons · October 2018 Full text Cite

Bridging the Gap: Identifying Global Trends in Gender Disparity Among the Radiology Physician Workforce.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · August 2018 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Women make up half of American medical school graduates, but remain underrepresented among radiologists. This study sought to determine whether workforce gender disparities exist in other countries, and to identify any country-spe ... Full text Link to item Cite

A machine learning approach to radiogenomics of breast cancer: a study of 922 subjects and 529 DCE-MRI features.

Journal Article Br J Cancer · August 2018 BACKGROUND: Recent studies showed preliminary data on associations of MRI-based imaging phenotypes of breast tumours with breast cancer molecular, genomic, and related characteristics. In this study, we present a comprehensive analysis of this relationship ... Full text Link to item Cite

Collaboration Metrics Among Female and Male Researchers: A 5-Year Review of Publications in Major Radiology Journals.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · July 2018 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Women are under-represented in radiology, but the implications of this under-representation are poorly understood. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine if articles published by women in major radiology journals we ... Full text Link to item Cite

Abstract LB-302: Oncolytic poliovirus-mediated inflammation and immunity in breast cancer

Conference Cancer Research · July 1, 2018 AbstractBreast cancer is the most common malignancy among women in the United States and the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women. Disease prognosis, local recurrence rates and response to therapy ... Full text Cite

Patient Perceptions of Breast Cancer Risk in Imaging-Detected Low-Risk Scenarios and Thresholds for Desired Intervention: A Multi-Institution Survey.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · June 2018 PURPOSE: To determine women's perceptions of breast cancer risk and thresholds for desiring biopsy when considering BI-RADS 3 and 4A scenarios and recommendations, respectively. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Women presenting for screening mammography from five ge ... Full text Link to item Cite

Normal Axillary Lymph Node Variability Between White and Black Women on Breast MRI.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · March 2018 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to determine if there were differences in the imaging features of normal lymph nodes between white and black women using magnetic resonance imaging. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Following institutional review board appr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prediction of Occult Invasive Disease in Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Using Deep Learning Features.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · March 2018 PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine whether deep features extracted from digital mammograms using a pretrained deep convolutional neural network are prognostic of occult invasive disease for patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) on core ... Full text Link to item Cite

Convolutional encoder-decoder for breast mass segmentation in digital breast tomosynthesis

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2018 Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is a relatively new modality for breast imaging that can provide detailed assessment of dense tissue within the breast. In the domains of cancer diagnosis, radiogenomics, and resident education, it is important to accurat ... Full text Cite

Association of high proliferation marker Ki-67 expression with DCEMR imaging features of breast: A large scale evaluation

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2018 One of the methods widely used to measure the proliferative activity of cells in breast cancer patients is the immunohistochemical (IHC) measurement of the percentage of cells stained for nuclear antigen Ki-67. Use of Ki-67 expression as a prognostic marke ... Full text Cite

Learning better deep features for the prediction of occult invasive disease in ductal carcinoma in situ through transfer learning

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2018 Purpose: To determine whether domain transfer learning can improve the performance of deep features extracted from digital mammograms using a pre-trained deep convolutional neural network (CNN) in the prediction of occult invasive disease for patients with ... Full text Cite

Deep learning-based features of breast MRI for prediction of occult invasive disease following a diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ: Preliminary data

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2018 Approximately 25% of patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) diagnosed from core needle biopsy are subsequently upstaged to invasive cancer at surgical excision. Identifying patients with occult invasive disease is important as it changes treatment a ... Full text Cite

Improving classification with forced labeling of other related classes: Application to prediction of upstaged ductal carcinoma in situ using mammographic features

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2018 Predicting whether ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) identified at core biopsy contains occult invasive disease is an import task since these "upstaged" cases will affect further treatment planning. Therefore, a prediction model that better classifies pure D ... Full text Cite

Concordant, non-atypical breast papillomas do not require surgical excision: A 10-year multi-institution study and review of the literature.

Journal Article Clin Imaging · 2018 PURPOSE: Non-atypical papillomas (NAPs) diagnosed on core needle biopsy (CNB) frequently undergo surgical excision due to highly variable upstaging rates. The purpose of this study is to document our dual-institution upgrade rates of NAPs diagnosed on core ... Full text Link to item Cite

Indications and techniques for biopsy

Chapter · January 1, 2018 Several breast biopsy techniques are available for patients presenting with palpable and nonpalpable lesions. Current consensus guidelines recommend percutaneous biopsy as the initial tissue acquisition modality. Image guidance (ultrasound, mammogram, or m ... Full text Cite

Developing an Introductory Radiology Clerkship at Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Journal Article Health Professions Education · December 1, 2017 Purpose In recent years, several well-known medical schools in the United States have partnered with foreign institutions to promote the post-graduate model of medical education and the concept of the academic medical center. One such example is Perdana Un ... Full text Cite

Can algorithmically assessed MRI features predict which patients with a preoperative diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ are upstaged to invasive breast cancer?

Journal Article J Magn Reson Imaging · November 2017 PURPOSE: To assess the ability of algorithmically assessed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features to predict the likelihood of upstaging to invasive cancer in newly diagnosed ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). MATERIALS AND METHODS: We identified 131 pati ... Full text Link to item Cite

Imaging Features of Patients Undergoing Active Surveillance for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · November 2017 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to describe the imaging appearance of patients undergoing active surveillance for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). MATERIALS AND METHODS: We retrospectively identified 29 patients undergoing active survei ... Full text Link to item Cite

Surgical Upstaging Rates for Vacuum Assisted Biopsy Proven DCIS: Implications for Active Surveillance Trials.

Journal Article Ann Surg Oncol · November 2017 PURPOSE: This study was designed to determine invasive cancer upstaging rates at surgical excision following vacuum-assisted biopsy of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) among women meeting eligibility for active surveillance trials. METHODS: Patients with va ... Full text Link to item Cite

Differential Motivations for Pursuing Diagnostic Radiology by Gender: Implications for Residency Recruitment.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · October 2017 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to determine how the motivations to pursue a career in radiology differ by gender. In addition, the influence of medical school radiology education will be assessed. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Radiology ap ... Full text Link to item Cite

Relationships Between MRI Breast Imaging-Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) Lexicon Descriptors and Breast Cancer Molecular Subtypes: Internal Enhancement is Associated with Luminal B Subtype.

Journal Article Breast J · September 2017 The aim of this study was to determine the associations between breast MRI findings using the Breast Imaging-Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) lexicon descriptors and breast cancer molecular subtypes. In this retrospective, IRB-approved, single instituti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Can Occult Invasive Disease in Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Be Predicted Using Computer-extracted Mammographic Features?

Journal Article Acad Radiol · September 2017 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to determine whether mammographic features assessed by radiologists and using computer algorithms are prognostic of occult invasive disease for patients showing ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) only in core biopsy. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Factors Influencing the Gender Breakdown of Academic Radiology Residency Programs.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · July 2017 PURPOSE: To determine the gender distribution of radiology residency programs and identify associations with radiology departmental factors. METHODS: The residency programs affiliated with the top 50 research medical school from US News and World Report we ... Full text Link to item Cite

Suspicious breast calcifications undergoing stereotactic biopsy in women ages 70 and over: Breast cancer incidence by BI-RADS descriptors.

Journal Article Eur Radiol · June 2017 OBJECTIVES: To determine the malignancy rate overall and for specific BI-RADS descriptors in women ≥70 years who undergo stereotactic biopsy for calcifications. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed 14,577 consecutive mammogram reports in 6839 women ≥70 yea ... Full text Link to item Cite

Focal Breast Pain: Does Breast Density Affect the Need for Ultrasound?

Journal Article Acad Radiol · January 2017 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to determine the utility of directed ultrasound and digital mammogram for evaluating focal breast pain in women with different mammographic breast densities. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This institutional review board- ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prediction of occult invasive disease in ductal carcinoma in situ using computer-extracted mammographic features

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2017 Predicting the risk of occult invasive disease in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is an important task to help address the overdiagnosis and overtreatment problems associated with breast cancer. In this work, we investigated the feasibility of using comput ... Full text Cite

Can upstaging of ductal carcinoma in situ be predicted at biopsy by histologic and mammographic features?

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2017 Reducing the overdiagnosis and overtreatment associated with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) requires accurate prediction of the invasive potential at cancer screening. In this work, we investigated the utility of pre-operative histologic and mammographic ... Full text Cite

A computer vision-based algorithm to predict false positive errors in radiology trainees when interpreting digital breast tomosynthesis cases

Journal Article Expert Systems with Applications · December 1, 2016 Objectives Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is a new imaging modality that improves invasive cancer detection rates compared to mammography. In this work, we aim to advance adaptive computer-based education in DBT by computer algorithm. Methods First, a ... Full text Cite

Predicting false negative errors in digital breast tomosynthesis among radiology trainees using a computer vision-based approach

Journal Article Expert Systems with Applications · September 1, 2016 Purpose Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) can improve lesion visibility in comparison to mammography by eliminating breast tissue superimposition. While the benefits of DBT in breast cancer screening rely on well trained radiologists, the optimal training ... Full text Cite

Interobserver variability in identification of breast tumors in MRI and its implications for prognostic biomarkers and radiogenomics.

Journal Article Med Phys · August 2016 PURPOSE: To assess the interobserver variability of readers when outlining breast tumors in MRI, study the reasons behind the variability, and quantify the effect of the variability on algorithmic imaging features extracted from breast MRI. METHODS: Four r ... Full text Link to item Cite

Breast MRI radiogenomics: Current status and research implications.

Journal Article J Magn Reson Imaging · June 2016 Featured Publication Breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radiogenomics is an emerging area of research that has the potential to directly influence clinical practice. Clinical MRI scanners today are capable of providing excellent temporal and spatial resolution, which allo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Men (and Women) in Academic Radiology: How Can We Reduce the Gender Discrepancy?

Journal Article AJR Am J Roentgenol · April 2016 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: There is a chronic gender imbalance in academic radiology departments, which could limit our field's ability to foster creative, productive, and innovative environments. We recently reviewed 51 major academic radiology faculty rosters and discov ... Full text Link to item Cite

Radiology Trainee Performance in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis: Relationship Between Difficulty and Error-Making Patterns.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · February 2016 PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to better understand the relationship between digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) difficulty and radiology trainee performance. METHODS: Twenty-seven radiology residents and fellows and three expert breast imagers reviewed ... Full text Link to item Cite

Imaging of Proximal Tibiofibular Joint Instability: A 10 year retrospective case series.

Journal Article Clin Imaging · 2016 OBJECTIVE: Detail the imaging findings in patients with proximal tibiofibular instability treated with surgical stabilization. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of preoperative imaging in patients with clinically confirmed tibiofibular instability. RESULTS: ... Full text Link to item Cite

Identification of error making patterns in lesion detection on digital breast tomosynthesis using computer-extracted image features

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2016 Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) can improve lesion visibility by eliminating the issue of overlapping breast tissue present in mammography. However, this new modality likely requires new approaches to training. The issue of training in DBT is not well e ... Full text Cite

Recurrence-free survival in breast cancer is associated with MRI tumor enhancement dynamics quantified using computer algorithms.

Journal Article Eur J Radiol · November 2015 PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between breast cancer recurrence-free survival and breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tumor enhancement dynamics which are quantified semi-automatically using computer algorithms. ME ... Full text Link to item Cite

Benefits and Harms of Breast Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review.

Journal Article JAMA · October 20, 2015 Featured Publication IMPORTANCE: Patients need to consider both benefits and harms of breast cancer screening. OBJECTIVE: To systematically synthesize available evidence on the association of mammographic screening and clinical breast examination (CBE) at different ages and in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Computational approach to radiogenomics of breast cancer: Luminal A and luminal B molecular subtypes are associated with imaging features on routine breast MRI extracted using computer vision algorithms.

Journal Article J Magn Reson Imaging · October 2015 Featured Publication PURPOSE: To identify associations between semiautomatically extracted MRI features and breast cancer molecular subtypes. METHODS: We analyzed routine clinical pre-operative breast MRIs from 275 breast cancer patients at a single institution in this retrosp ... Full text Link to item Cite

Left renal vein compression as cause for varicocele: prevalence and associated findings on contrast-enhanced CT.

Journal Article Abdom Imaging · October 2015 PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of left renal vein compression in patients with varicoceles. METHODS: Abdominal and pelvis contrast-enhanced CT images from 100 male patients with varicoceles (mean age 50.6 years) and 100 m ... Full text Link to item Cite

Abbreviated screening protocol for breast MRI: a feasibility study.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · September 2015 Featured Publication RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: To compare the performance of two shortened breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocols to a standard MRI protocol for breast cancer screening. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this Health Insurance Portability and Accountability A ... Full text Link to item Cite

Frequency of Malignancy and Imaging Characteristics of Probably Benign Lesions Seen at Breast MRI.

Journal Article AJR Am J Roentgenol · August 2015 OBJECTIVE: The purposes of this study were to evaluate the frequency, follow-up compliance, and cancer rate of MRI BI-RADS category 3 lesions and to determine the cancer rate for individual BI-RADS descriptors. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective review ... Full text Link to item Cite

Does Breast Imaging Experience During Residency Translate Into Improved Initial Performance in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis?

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · July 2015 PURPOSE: To determine the initial digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) performance of radiology trainees with varying degrees of breast imaging experience. METHODS: To test trainee performance with DBT, we performed a reader study, after obtaining IRB approv ... Full text Link to item Cite

Applicant to Residency Program Translation Guide.

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Interobserver Variability Between Breast Imagers Using the Fifth Edition of the BI-RADS MRI Lexicon.

Journal Article AJR Am J Roentgenol · May 2015 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the interobserver variability of users of the MRI lexicon in the fifth edition of the BI-RADS atlas. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Three breast imaging specialists reviewed 280 routine clinical breast MRI finding ... Full text Link to item Cite

Can breast cancer molecular subtype help to select patients for preoperative MR imaging?

Journal Article Radiology · February 2015 Featured Publication PURPOSE: To assess whether breast cancer molecular subtype classified by surrogate markers can be used to predict the extent of clinically relevant disease with preoperative breast magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this HIPAA-compl ... Full text Link to item Cite

Accessory veins in nonmaturing autogenous arteriovenous fistulae: analysis of anatomic features and impact on fistula maturation.

Journal Article Semin Dial · 2015 The appropriate management of nonmaturing arteriovenous (AV) fistulae continues to be a controversial issue. While coil embolization of accessory side-branch veins can be performed to encourage maturation of nonmaturing AV fistulae, the true efficacy and o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Incorporating breast tomosynthesis into radiology residency: Does trainee experience in breast imaging translate into improved performance with this new modality?

Conference Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE · January 1, 2015 Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is a powerful new imaging modality that has the potential to transform breast cancer screening practices. The advantages over mammography include improved sensitivity and specificity as well as the detection of additional ... Full text Cite

Survey of the incidence and effect of major life events on graduate medical education trainees.

Journal Article Med Educ Online · 2015 PURPOSE: This study aims to assess the incidence of major life events during graduate medical education (GME) training and to establish any associations with modifiable activities and career planning. METHODS: The authors surveyed graduating GME trainees f ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Survey of the incidence and effect of major life events on graduate medical education trainees.

Journal Article Med Educ Online · January 2015 Purpose This study aims to assess the incidence of major life events during graduate medical education (GME) training and to establish any associations with modifiable activities and career planning. Methods The authors surveyed graduating GME trainees fro ... Full text Link to item Cite

Radiogenomic analysis of breast cancer: luminal B molecular subtype is associated with enhancement dynamics at MR imaging.

Journal Article Radiology · November 2014 Featured Publication PURPOSE: To investigate associations between breast cancer molecular subtype and semiautomatically extracted magnetic resonance (MR) imaging features. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Imaging and genomic data from the Cancer Genome Atlas and the Cancer Imaging Archi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Radiology resident mammography training: interpretation difficulty and error-making patterns.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · July 2014 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to better understand the concept of mammography difficulty and how it affects radiology resident performance. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Seven radiology residents and three expert breast imagers reviewed ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predictors of an academic career on radiology residency applications.

Journal Article Acad Radiol · May 2014 RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: To evaluate radiology residency applications to determine if any variables are predictive of a future academic radiology career. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Application materials from 336 radiology residency graduates between 1993 and ... Full text Link to item Cite

Predicting error in detecting mammographic masses among radiology trainees using statistical models based on BI-RADS features.

Journal Article Med Phys · March 2014 PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to explore Breast Imaging-Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) features as predictors of individual errors made by trainees when detecting masses in mammograms. METHODS: Ten radiology trainees and three expert breast im ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ultimate publication rate of unpublished manuscripts listed on radiology residency applications at one institution.

Journal Article Acad Med · November 2013 PURPOSE: This study was designed to assess the ultimate publication rate of unpublished manuscripts listed on radiology residency applications. METHOD: A retrospective review was performed on all 628 Electronic Residency Application Service applications su ... Full text Link to item Cite

Radiology education in China.

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Incidental detection of nutcracker phenomenon on multidetector CT in an asymptomatic population: prevalence and associated findings.

Journal Article J Comput Assist Tomogr · 2013 OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of nutcracker phenomenon (left renal vein compression by the superior mesenteric artery) and secondary anatomic findings using multidetector computed tomographic (CT) angiography in an asymptomatic population. METHODS ... Full text Link to item Cite

Assessing the utility of the ventilation phase in ventilation-perfusion imaging for acute pulmonary embolism.

Journal Article Nucl Med Commun · January 2013 PURPOSE: This study aims to identify patient characteristics that allow the exclusion of the ventilation phase in ventilation-perfusion imaging for the evaluation of acute pulmonary embolism (PE). MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 500 consecutive ventilati ... Full text Link to item Cite

Can the localization of primary colonic tumors be improved by staging CT without specific bowel preparation compared to optical colonoscopy?

Journal Article Eur J Radiol · October 2012 OBJECTIVES: To investigate the ability of staging computed tomography (CT) without bowel preparation to accurately localize colonic tumors compared to optical colonoscopy. METHODS: The local institutional review board approved this retrospective and HIPAA- ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effectiveness of a breath-hold monitoring system in improving the reproducibility of different breath-hold positions in multiphasic CT imaging.

Journal Article Clin Imaging · 2012 This study tests whether the utilization of an electronic breath-hold monitoring device improves breath-hold reproducibility during computed tomographic (CT) scanning. Two cohorts of 40 patients underwent dual-phase abdominal CT scans, either with a breath ... Full text Link to item Cite

The effect of left-sided versus right-sided contrast infusion on attenuation of the main pulmonary artery when performing computed tomography angiograms of the chest.

Journal Article J Comput Assist Tomogr · January 2010 OBJECTIVE: This study assesses if the arm of contrast infusion influences attenuation of the main pulmonary artery in computed tomography (CT) angiograms to evaluate for pulmonary emboli. METHODS: Four hundred seven consecutive CT angiograms performed to e ... Full text Link to item Cite